Janet Merran

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Janet Merran

Janet Merran received her Master's degree from the University of Minnesota and attended classes at the Loft Literary Center.

As in insider in Top 40 Radio in the 1970's, she experienced its culture and many of its seamier practices first-hand.

Top 40 Honeypot is fictional, but it is based on a real era, industry, and culture. This is her first novel.

Top 40 Honeypot

The year is 1974 and Donnie Dixon is hired as program director of one of the most popular Top 40 radio stations in the country. But he soon finds out that behind the excitement of the music, the contests, and the big money prizes, is a dark world of crime, betrayal, and deceit. Be prepared for a thriller like no other inside the world of Top 40...

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Praise

"A glaring truth woven into this fantastic novel"

– Award winning author, Sonja Grace.

"What would you be willing to do to make it? How far would you be willing to do to climb to the top? Those are the questions 'Top 40 Honeypot' asks and answers. Set during the Golden Age of Top 40, the book looks at a time and place when radio was king, morals were loose and young women were often offered up as sacrificial lambs for ravenous wolves. The fast-paced page-turner takes a cold, hard and unstinting look at how ambition, greed, cowardice and lust made for a dark witches' brew that belied the sunny surface of the Seventies Hit Parade."

– Christopher Loring Knowles, author of "He Will Live Up in the Sky."

"Entertainment horror reaches its pinnacle in Merran's decadent narrative! The rabbit hole runs deep int he glamorous sphere of 1970s radio programming Merran skillfully blends the macabre minds of music industry elites with the normalcy of the everyday in an immersive and insightful commentary on the duplicity of human consciousness. I couldn't look away!"

– Elyria Swann, award-winner author of "How to Become a Mermaid: Embodying the elemental Energy of Water."

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